Saturday - July 09, 2011

The Last For Now

One last Fast and Furious post. It’s a tidal wave, m’kay? No, noth this post, just the deluge of information coming in now that people are crossing the T’s and dotting the I’s.

Phoenix news agency runs serial numbers of gun bust, traces back 73% of guns to F&F. All 5 arrested gun runners are non-American; 4 are illegals.

PHOENIX - The ABC15 Investigators have linked an additional 43 weapons recovered during a Phoenix traffic stop to the controversial Fast and Furious ATF case.

According to court paperwork, Phoenix Drug Enforcement Administration agents discovered the guns in mid-April. They pulled over a vehicle near 83rd Avenue and Interstate 10, near the Phoenix and Tolleson border.
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Four of the suspects are listed as undocumented immigrants. The fifth suspect had been admitted to the United States under a non-immigrant visa, according to court documents.
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Agents recovered at least 59 weapons during the bust. The ABC15 Investigators found 43 are connected to the Fast and Furious case with certainty.

We reviewed official ATF Suspect Gun Summary documents – a sort of “watch list” for suspicious gun sales and gun buyers. We matched serial numbers within the ATF documents to gun serial numbers contained within the federal court documents.

Most of the recovered weapons connected to the Fast and Furious case included Romarm/Cugir GP-WASR 10/63 UF Rifles and Romarm Cugir Draco pistols. Agents also recovered at least one FN Herstal pistol.

The “Romarm/Cugir GP-WASR 10/63 UF Rifles” is a Romanian import knock-off of the Soviet AK-47. It was not originally a converted military weapon, it was built as a semi-automatic. With a folding stock and a minimum length barrel, it is a fairly short weapon. Once considered total crap, Romanian AKs have been better lately because they have gone over to using ex-military receivers.

The “Cugir Draco pistol” is an AK-47 pistol. No stock, and a pretty stubby 8-12” barrel. Beats me how it gets called a pistol since it still has the rifle’s forearm in place, which makes it a two handed firearm. These are very short guns, perfect for drive-by shootings or for hiding under a jacket prior to robbing a liquor store.

A Draco pistols was used in the ambush that killed ICE agent Jaime Zapata on February 15. Read the link - it sure looks like that particular gun was part of the arsenal sold to Los Zetas, though a month before agents began their “sting” investigation.




I really wonder just how many thousand guns our government funneled into the hands of the drug gangs. 1800 from the Phoenix office, 2500 from the Tampa office ... who can say? 10,000? 20,000? 100,000? The only people with the government records are the government!

I’ve read elsewhere that the ATF is pretty much shut down at this point. That right now the only thing they’re doing is busting people for fireworks. Ya think?

Posted by Drew458     on 07/09/2011 at 03:50 PM   
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